G-Her (Star)
R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 30 arcminutes across.
From Cambridge , g-Her is visible in both the dusk and dawn skies. In the evening, it will become visible at around 17:27 (EST), 32° above your north-western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then sink towards the horizon, setting 5 hours and 39 minutes after the Sun at 21:55 (EST). In the morning, it will rise at 02:21 – 4 hours and 19 minutes before the Sun – and reach an altitude of 20° above the north-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:29.
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Name
G-Her
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Object type
Star
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Other names
Position
| Right ascension: | 16h28m38s [4] |
| Declination: | +41°52'53" [4] |
| Constellation: | Hercules |
| Magnitude: Variable | 4.91 (V) [2] 6.57 (BT) [2] 5.05 (VT) [2] 2.72 (G) [4] 5.18 (BP) [4] 2.05 (RP) [4] |
| Distance: | 117.8 parsec 384.1 lightyrs [4] |
| B-V Color (mag): | 1.30 |
| Proper motion (speed): | 29.3 mas/yr[4] |
| Proper motion (pos ang): | 102.6° |
Derived quantities
| Absolute mag (V): | -0.45 |
Sources